This course is designed to provide the participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct an effective process hazard analysis and management

• PHA / HAZOP team leaders & scribes
• Health & Safety / HSE professionals
• Process Safety Management (PSM) / Loss management specialilsts
• Supervisors, managers and engineers responsible for PHA studies.

Module 1: PHA Selection, Preparation and Techniques

• Definitions
• Overview of PSM 14 elements
• Introduction to process hazards analysis
• Understanding the Origins Of Process Hazard Analyses (PHAs)
• What is PHA intended to accomplish?
• PHA team make-up
• Case study : BP Texas, 2005

Module 2: Hazard identification techniques

• What if/Checklist
• Fault Tree Analysis FTA
• Failure Mood and Effect Analysis FMEA
• Task-Based Risk Assessment TBRA
• Job Safety Analysis JSA
• Event Tree Analysis ETA
• Hazard and operability HAZOP
• Case study: FTA

Module 3: HAZOP methodology

• Ideal HAZOP Review Reference Data
• Introduction to HAZOP method
• Characteristics of HAZOP
• HAZOP team formation
• Rules and responsibilities of HAZOP team members
• HAZOP terminologies
• HAZOP Algorithms
• Filling HAZOP form
• HAZOP workshop
• Case study : Piper Alpha

Module 4: Critical Accident Scenarios

• The Case for Worst-case Scenarios
• Is the Worst-case Release Only 10 Minutes Long?
• The Best Case for Worst-case Scenarios
• Unconfined Vapor Cloud Explosions

 Module 5: quantities and qualitative Risk Assessment

• Risk criteria
• Risk prioritization
• Estimating likelihood
• Risk reduction and reliability
• Layer of Protection Analysis (LOPA)
• HAZOP workshop

 Module 6: Revalidation Process, Risk Prioritization

• What is revalidation?
• Why is revalidation important?
• Establishing the revalidation schedule
• Overview Of Major Requirements for PHA Revalidations
• Preparing for the revalidation study

 Module 7: Recommendations for Risk Management

• Engineering controls
• Administrative controls
• Credible and non-credible scenarios or causes
• HAZOP Technical Suggestions
• HAZOP Recommendations
• Consequences of Failures of Administrative and Engineering Controls
• Approaches of Assigning Protection layers
• HAZOP workshop

BTS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 75% of the total course duration.